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Originally Posted by Mark
"Chachapoyas chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon wrote of the tribe: 'They are the whitest and most handsome of all the people that I have seen, and their wives were so beautiful that because of their gentleness, many of them deserved to be the Incas' wives and to also be taken to the Sun Temple. '"
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I don't relish the "Incas' wives" theory. Let's hope it didn't happen.
So how and when did they get to Peru ?? I can envision a dozen or more Viking shiploads exploring south from Newfoundland or Iceland, then getting blown off course, and winding up in Puerto Rico or the Demonica Republic, then island hopping southwards til they landed in Columbia or Venezuela, 700-800 miles or so from their eventual homeland in Peru.
However, since they were numerous enough to conquer and hold such a large area of Peru beginning around 800, then the time period of that Viking journey, would have to have been hundreds of years prior to the Viking settlements in Iceland which, I understand began in 785 or thereabouts. So we're talking 4th or 5th century, I'm a thinking.
Sound feasible to you ??